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For new teachers, as the end of first term nears, you may be feeling despair. But don’t leave - we need teachers like you. Here’s some advice on how to make the first year a little less turbulent.
Teachers admit falling down in digital competency, so if we are to improve students’ performance in this area, we first need to get teachers’ skills up to scratch.
An academic, and parent at a Manchester school that has chosen to become an academy, says surely there is a better way.
Polls indicate that a large percentage of Americans know very little about Common Core, the standards for teaching math and English language arts. Here are some Common Core facts.
Australian teachers have around half as many professional development days as teachers in other countries have.
Lack of confidence, negative attitudes and low student participation rates are just a few of the challenges maths and science teachers face.
Constant chaotic change and mounting pressure has led to the teaching brain drain.
Our memory and attention are at their peak only at certain times during the day. Why would the timing of test not affect students’ performance?
Helping your teenager with their homework can make them feel incompetent and can hinder their own skills development.
By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
As the new school year begins, here’s some advice for how parents and teachers can get off on the right foot.
It takes a combination of people, places and activities to make school a happy environment for kids. Here’s how teachers and parents can get involved.
Bring back collective bargaining to help fix the developing teacher crisis.
Do expectations about the “right” parent involvement take into account America’s large diversity?
Many schools claim that when students attend in uniforms, it improves discipline, and leads to academic gains. But does it?
The first year at work is the toughest for novice teachers. Induction, guided by more experienced teachers, has proved an effective solution all over the world.
Homeschooling regulations vary from state to state. And loopholes in these regulations could excuse parents from actually reporting the results.
When your kids (or colleagues) misbehave, does anyone give you five options, one of which is uniquely correct, to solve the problem? So, why do we continue to test students in this way?
After November 13, teachers in France asked themselves how they could talk to their students about the violence. The answers are both creative and deeply moving.
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